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Dennis Quaid Says Trump Is ‘Doing A Good Job’ Against The Coronavirus

According to recent polls, the majority of Americans don’t trust President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak. Apparently, actor Dennis Quaid is not among them. Given that Quaid has been an advocate for patient safety, The Daily Beast’s Marlow Stern recently asked him for his thoughts on how the Trump administration is dealing with the pandemic. The […]

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Night lights at school fields across nation a ‘sign of hope’

Sports / En Sound Media

The virus outbreak weighed heavily on Brett Beesley’s heart and mind as the Dumas High School principal drove past the stadium along the main highway in his Texas Panhandle town. Seeking to brighten the spiritsof his suddenly disconnected students in a gloomy and frightening time, he made a decision. They should turn on the lights.

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Trump Administration Monitors Coronavirus Sentiments

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WASHINGTON — The Department of Health and Human Services’ preparedness and response division is confronting the deadliest pandemic in a century, and its leaders want to know how America is feeling. In a series of slides dated Monday and obtained by The New York Times, the department’s assistant secretary for preparedness and response presented a

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Germany flies in seasonal farm workers amid virus measures

Finance / En Sound Media

BERLIN — Two planes carrying Eastern European farmhands arrived Thursday in Germany as an ambitious government program to import thousands of seasonal agricultural workers got underway amid strict precautions to protect both the laborers and the country from the new coronavirus. The flights to Berlin and Duesseldorf were arranged to address a massive labor shortage

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Coronavirus: A&E visits drop sharply as calls to 111 double

Lifestyle / En Sound Media

Image copyright Getty Images The coronavirus crisis led to a huge drop in the numbers of people going to accident and emergency units in England last month compared with March last year, official figures show. At the same time, though, calls to NHS 111 rose to nearly three million, twice as many as in the

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Coronavirus: Manic Street Preachers play NHS concerts

Entertainment / En Sound Media

Image copyright Columbia Image caption The Manic Street Preachers will play two concerts in December The Manic Street Preachers have announced two special concerts to support the NHS. The Welsh band will play one free gig just for NHS workers – while profits from a second will go to NHS charities. Frontman James Dean Bradfield

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Coronavirus: Worst economic crisis since 1930s depression, IMF says

Business / En Sound Media

Image copyright AFP Image caption Three-quarters of the world’s workers have seen their place of work close at last partially during the pandemic, the UN sys The coronavirus pandemic will turn global economic growth “sharply negative” this year, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned. Kristalina Georgieva said the world faced the

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Zoom Is Easy. That’s Why It’s Dangerous.

Technology / En Sound Media

This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. The technology we love is easy to use. Paying the babysitter on Venmo, sharing a puppy video on Facebook or buying a novel on Amazon is a breeze. Most of the time, this is good. But as

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HBCU NFL hopefuls adjust after canceled pro days, combine

Sports / En Sound Media

De’Montrez Burroughs looked at it as his best shot to accomplish his NFL dream. The South Carolina State senior receiver had the dates circled on his calendar. First, the Bulldogs’ annual pro day on March 19, followed a week later by the first-ever NFL combine event held for draft prospects from Historically Black Colleges and

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Unemployment Ranks Up by 6.6 Million as Coronavirus Hits Jobs

Finance / En Sound Media

Another 6.6 million people filed for unemployment benefits last week as the coronavirus outbreak continued its devastating march through the American economy, the Labor Department reported on Thursday. With astonishing swiftness, the pandemic has shut down both longstanding and new businesses, leaving veteran workers and recent hires in nearly every type of industry without a

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